Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hoshyar Zebari

We want a good, solid constitution. We don't want to force a deal on any group that they're uncomfortable with.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

We do not support a coup. We have always operated within the means of the Constitution.

We are trying to move from a state constitution to a constitutional state,

The constitution is for us all to live together, a common life, we need each other.

through peaceful means and dialogue within the framework of the Constitution and the law of the country.

Chen Shui-bian

With sincerity, I swear to the people of this country that I will follow the constitution to increase the people's welfare and safeguard the country,

You had four members of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court who suddenly found a right to same-sex marriage in the oldest written constitution still enforced in the world. That is a prime example of what we mean by judicial activism.

Michael Badnarik

The reason that we can't find a relationship between the Constitution and the government is that there is none.

I've watched as you have kept your oath to preserve and protect the Constitution.

John Roberts

The right to privacy is protected under the Constitution in various ways,

Jose Barroso

We will not have the constitution in the next years.

John Breaux

We do not have to have a trial. The Constitution says that the Senate shall be the sole trier of an impeachment resolution. It gives us the power to do it, but it doesn't demand that we have to,

I'm going to retake ownership of my constitution. The constitution was written to limit the power of those we elect to office. This fight is a very important one. There are 12.5 million Pennsylvanians and 253 people in office in Harrisburg, drunk on the power. They don't get it. Out here, it's us versus them.

Talk to me as a father, ... Just philosophically, what do you think? Not what the Constitution says, what do you feel?

John Conyers

creates a process grounded in the Constitution that is focused, fair, expeditious and deliberate.

It's an unusual step. It's a big step, but what the president did by consciously and intentionally violating the constitution and laws of this country with this illegal wiretapping has to be answered.

It was boredom. Essentially that's what he said at the time. The constitution gives the lieutenant governor no real responsibilities except to succeed the governor in the event of death or other impairment.

Pauline Hanson

It was always written up in our constitution that our positions were not concreted forever and a day, ... It is written in our constitution that our positions would go to the vote by the members of One Nation, so you see they have misread our constitution.

Patrick Sullivan

A whole holiday about studying the Constitution just sounds like they're pushing, like they're trying to make more national pride and glorify the country, ... If one or two want to do it, that's fine but don't make it a holiday that everyone has to celebrate.

A law is a law and the constitution says he can't run,

John Thune

You're trying to pull together a lot of different people, a lot of different factions ... but I'm hopeful that when it's all said and done that they'll have a constitution that ultimately will be ratified by their government,

John Conyers

Everybody wanted to explain Rosa Parks and wanted to teach Rosa Parks, but Rosa Parks wasn't very interested in that, ... She wanted them to understand the government and to understand their rights and the Constitution that people are still trying to perfect today.

Every state has an undoubted right to determine the status, or domestic and social condition, of the persons domiciled within its territory except insofar as the powers of the states in this respect are restrained, or duties and obligations imposed upon them, by the Constitution of the United States.

The NUC skirmish is only a prelude...the real issue is in my view the new constitution.

Gore Vidal

Americans worship the Constitution but do not observe it.

He's literally the criminal law expert, the constitution law expert, he's the expert on search and seizure.

Ferdinand Mount

No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.

I've heard of Law Day. May 1 is Law Day and we often talk about the Constitution then.

John Walsh

I'm passionate about the Constitution and the rule of law and the issue of fairness and the issue of acceptance. This is a wonderful community. Why would we want to do something that drives a wedge between us?

Putting it in the state constitution doesn't save it.

Will Rogers

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

Martin Heinrich

People have a fundamental right to organize. It's rooted very much in the Constitution and people's right to free association.

Rafik Hariri

affirms to the Lebanese that he will continue to shoulder the responsibility in safeguarding the constitution and the laws.